Posts Tagged 'older workers'

Shorter work weeks, flexible hours and extended healthcare benefits are important for recruiting and keeping older workers, a new survey showed. A poll of Canadians age 55 and older conducted by Ipsos Reid identified several factors that companies need to keep in mind to attract and stop older workers from leaving. Continue reading ‘Canada: how to keep older workers’

One measure of economic pain is the number of people out of work six months or more, long enough to exhaust their unemployment benefits. The Labor Department classifies them as long-term unemployed, and their numbers stayed stubbornly high even during the recent good times. Continue reading ‘US: older workers in long-term unemployment’

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